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Seer Change Log

[2.5beta] - 2024-XX-XX

  • Starting the 2.5 development cycle.
  • Console now supports a subset of ANSI color codes.
  • Console can be started in these modes:
    • Detached
    • Detached and minimized
    • Attached in Seer's tab view (with gdb logs and seer logs).
  • Improved handling of \n \t and other escaped characters in gdb log window.
  • Show breakpoint info as a tooltip if the breakpoint icon is clicked with LMB and held down.
  • Show stack as a hex dump, with options to view as short, int, long, ascii, ...
  • The "go to address" in the Assembly view now works if address it outside current assembly view.

[2.4] - 2024-03-18

  • Changed main icon to a more license friendly one. All icons are now GPLv3, CC3.0, or CC4.0
  • Fixed string compares for breakpoint conditions (#184)
  • Added '--bs' command line option to specify a breakpoint at a source.cpp:lineno
  • Fixed long tooltips text by restricting them to 100 characters. (#189) The text in the various viewing dialogs is still the full length. The 100 limit probably needs to be configurable.
  • Added register profiles to show only interesting/relevant registers.
  • Added UTF-8,16,32 support in the Memory Visualizer.
  • Added an internal "dark" and "light" theme via the View->Style menu.
  • Added option to open the current source file in an external editor.
  • Fixed saving of RR parameters in config dialog.
  • Sped up some visualization views.

[2.3] - 2023-11-19

  • In the margins of the source windows, allow CTRL+DoubleClick to do a quick RunToLine or RunToAddress.
  • Add --gdb-program and --gdb-arguments to command line to override settings from Seer's config.
  • Fixed a rare bug with blank lines from gdb causing a segv in GdbMonitor.
  • Fixed bug specifying path to "rr" debugger.
  • Add option to reload source file if it changes.
  • Tighten up the layout by removing some needless whitespace.
  • Move gdb messages to a tab in the breakpoints window.
    • Options to raise on every message, never, or important messages.
  • Add C++ level (11 or 17) depending on qt5 or qt6 compile.
  • Fixed up column resizing for the Variable logger (#173)
  • Use monspace font, where it makes sense (#175)
  • Allow copy to clipboard (#176)
  • Fixed hovering a variable name and value (#179)
  • Add nested struct viewing in "locals", "arguments", "logger", and "tracker" tabs. (#180)

[2.2] - 2023-09-07

  • Fixed infinite loop when starting with RR mode.
  • Reworked RR mode to directly run 'rr replay'. No need to start a 'rr server' and connect to it. https://github.com/epasveer/seer/wiki/RR-and-Seer
  • Fixed Source handling in source browser. Qt5 mode was broken. Qt6 works. Directory paths need a tailing "/*"

[2.1] - 2023-08-23

  • Add Execution dialog to record breakpoint events. This solves the problem of too many break/error dialogs to "swat away" as the program is debugged.
  • Add a method to add/change gdb commands to execute when a breakpoint (breakpoint, watchpoint, catchpoint) is reached.
  • Add a method to add/change a breakpoint's condition command.
  • Add a method to add/change a breakpoint's ignore count.
  • Add a method to add/change a breakpoint's command list.
  • Debug dialog for "attach" mode now detects executable name and path from /proc//exe.
  • Commandline for "attach" mode now detects executable name and path from /proc//exe.

[2.0] - 2023-03-06

[1.17] - 2023-04-23

[1.16] - 2023-04-07

  • Add pid to main window and console title bars.
  • The Pending flag is automatically supplied to the breakpoint function in the Debug dialog for the Run mode. Some apps use deferred loading of code with dlopen().
  • Fixed bug when restoring from project file with 'start' mode.
  • ADA: Improve visualizers for Ada arrays. "(system.address) 0x7fffffffcf10"
  • ADA: Add Ada task browser.
  • ADA: Add Ada specific catchpoints.
  • ADA: Add Ada exception brower.
  • Add a Shortcut (CTRL-I) to interrupt the running program.

[1.15] - 2023-03-04

  • Revamp Debug dialog. Move debug modes into "tabs".
  • Add "help" icon to each debug mode in Debug dialog.
  • Add 'pre' and 'post' gdb commands that can be executed just before and just after the program is loaded into gdb.
  • Add the concept of 'project' files that can be created and loaded. Project files contain all settings available in the Debug dialog.
  • Assembly view can now be shown in 2 modes. See "Settings->Configure->Assembly"
    • Function. The view shows all assembly in the function the $PC is in.
    • Length. The view shows N bytes of assembly after the $PC. Used for code that is pure assembly or has no debug information.
  • Minor fixes when debugging corefiles.
  • Fixed breakpoints with conditional statements.
  • Fixed up icons and Debian "copyright" file for Debian Intent-To-Package.
  • Double-clicking on a breakpoint in the source window will delete it. Previously it would disable it.
  • Assembly Tab - show only Nexti and Stepi buttons. Source tabs - show only Next and Step buttons.
  • Hide certains buttons (Run, Start, ...) depending on Debug mode (run, attach, connect, etc...)
  • Save state of tabs (tab order and current tab). So next session will get them.

[1.14] - 2023-01-02

  • Happy New Year!
  • Add 'tabsize' property to Source Editors to properly display source files containing tab characters. Default is 4. Can be changed by the Editor config page.
  • Fixed '\t' character returned by some flavors of gdb that display the disassembly.
  • Remove whitespace from C/C++ lines in the Assembly tab.
  • Allow assembly code to have its own font format. See Config->Editor->AssemblyText.
  • Add Nexti and Stepi toolbar buttons if Assembly tab is shown.
  • Add PC, SP, FLAGS status bar to Assembly tab.
  • Re-added the original struct visualizers as "Basic Struct Visualizer". The advanced version is called "Struct Visualizer".
  • Moved selection of visualizers into a sub menu called "Visualizers" on the menu bar.
  • Added alternate file to load symbols from (instead of the debugee executable.

[1.13] - 2022-12-02

  • Improve specifying an alternate directory if the source has moved. Fewer mouse clicks.
  • Add new Image Visualizer.
    • View RGB888 and RGBA8888 images.
  • Assembly Tab can show source lines along with assembly.
  • Add CRC16 checksum to Memory Visualizer.
  • Add help for the main window's tab bar.

[1.12] - 2022-10-22

  • Added Gdb's Reverse Debugging mode.
    • Turn on/off gdb instruction recording.
    • Set play-back direction.
  • Added Gdb's Non-Stop mode.
  • Added support for the older QT5.12 library.
    • Expect rendering problems with the builtin help system.
    • Urge to move to QT5.15 library.
  • Main execute buttons.
    • Add '--all threads' for main execute buttons.
      • run/start/next/step/finish/continue/interrupt.
    • Individual threads can be managed by the Thread Manager.
  • Thread Manager changes.
    • Thread Frame browser.
      • Allow multiple threads to be select. Selecting 1 thread will select stack frame.
      • Add next/step/finish/continue/interrupt for selected thread(s).
    • Thread Id browser.
      • Allow multiple threads to be select. Selecting 1 thread will select stack frame.
      • Add next/step/finish/continue/interrupt for selected thread(s).
    • Thread Group browser.
      • Allow multiple thread groups to be select.
      • Add continue/interrupt for selected thread group(s).
      • Add run/start for selected thread group(s). Disabled for now.
  • Assembly view changes.
    • Showing Address, Offset, and Opcodes columns are configuable from the Config Dialog.
    • ^F in the Assembly editor can do quick changes.
  • Changing the Qt Style can be saved using Settings->Save Configuration.
  • Added valgrind support.

[1.11] - 2022-09-26

  • Thread/Process manager.
    • Add a fork/vfork mode. Follow:
      • Parent process.
      • Child process.
      • Both (switchable via thread manager)
      • (see gdb's follow-fork-mode and detach-on-fork modes)
    • Add thread execution mode. Execute:
      • Selected thread only.
      • All threads
      • (see gdb's scheduler-locking mode)
    • Add multi-process execution mode.
      • Execute selected process.
      • Execute all processes.
      • (see gdb's schedule-multiple mode)
  • Add Help to Thread/Process browser.
  • Add Help to Stack Frame browser.
  • Add Help to Variable/Register browser.
  • Add Help to Source/Symbol/Library browser.
  • Add Help to Struct Visualizer.
  • Add Help to Memory Visualizer.
  • Add Help to Array Visualizer.
  • Add Help to Code Manager.
  • Add Help to Breakpoint/Gdb log Manager.
  • Add RMB menu to progress indicator to select indicator type.

[1.10] - 2022-09-22

  • New Struct Visualizer.
    • Built apon gdb's -var-obj framework.
    • Can recursively show the contents of a struct/class.
    • Show datatype of each member. (Value or pointer)
    • Can modify values of simple datatypes.
  • Improve Source Browsing.
    • See new options in 'Source' config page.
    • Ignore opening files from a list of directories. Like system directories that don't exist.
    • Better sorting of program's files into "Source", "Header", and "Misc" folders in the SourceBrowser by having a list of filename patterns for each folder.
  • The list of C/C++ file suffixes for syntax highlighting is configurable.
  • Changed to CreativeCommons and GPLv3 icons.
    • Friendlier license to use icons.
    • Breeze Icon set for most things. (GPLv3)
    • Icons from these sites that require CreativeCommon license. (Simple attribution). icon-icons.com thenounproject.com

[1.9] - 2022-08-30

  • Rename 'seer' binary to 'seergdb'. The name conflicts with another opensource project.
  • Prepare for better Debian (and other distros) packaging and releasing.
  • Add history (up/down arrows) to all line input fields.
    • Variable logger, tracker browsers.
    • Source, function, types, statics, library browsers.
    • Struct, memory, array visualizers.
    • Code and assembly editors.
    • Console.
  • Add StructVisualizer to source/assembly editors and stack arguments/locals browsers.
  • Add a RMB to launch Memory/Array/Struct viewer from a running Struct viewer.
  • Change 'detachtab' to use RMB context menu instead of a double-click.
  • Allow filenames with spaces when setting breakpoints.

[1.8] - 2022-08-08

  • Add StructVisualizer

    • New visualizer to view the contents of a C/C++ struct or a C++ class in a tree.
    • Click on the "StructVisualizer" in the menubar or "View -> Struct Visualizer".
    • Enter the name of the variable in the text section.
    • examples: "*this" "mystruct" "mystruct.member"
    • The variable text section has a history. So you can use the UP and DOWN arrows to select previous entries.
    • Manually refresh the view or click on "Auto" to refresh the view at each stopping point (after a step/next/breakpoint).

  • Add Dark theme option for Seer's code editor. Set in Seer config page.

    • Works for C/C++ source tabs and the assembly tab.

  • Register browser.

    • Can now edit register values.
    • Either by double-clicking the register value or by RMB context menu to bring up a dialog.
    • Add format selector for register values.
    • Improve detection of changed register values from previous stopping point.

  • Assembly support.

    • Add assembly config page for certain assembly settings.
      • assembly style
      • C++ symbol demangling.
      • Keep assembly tab on top.
      • Show assembly tab on Seer startup.
    • Launch MemoryVisualizer and ArrayVisualizer from the Assembly tab on highlighter text.

  • Debug options for launching program.

    • No break on program start.
    • Break in "main".
    • Break in function.
    • Break at address.
    • Randomize program's start address.

  • ArrayVisualizer and MemoryVisualizer now allow an address as the variable name.

  • A menu to experiment setting Seer with different Qt gui styles.

    • See "View -> Styles"

  • Bugs fixes.

    • Fixed double refresh bug in code editor.
    • Fixed bug when displaying assembly for the first time. It wasn't showing the current line.
    • Fixed background color problem in MemoryVisualizer for disassembly.

[1.7] - 2022-07-04

  • Add an assembly tab, along side the source tabs in the Code Manager.
    • Shows the program's assembly.
    • Enable with "View -> Assembly View"
    • Can set and show breakpoints.
    • Highlight the current instruction.
    • Step by instruction (Nexti and Stepi).
    • Double-clicking on entries in the "Breakpoints" tab and the "Stack frames" tab will show the assembly for those addresses.
    • ^F to bring up search bar in Assembly tab.
  • Fix some minor bugs.